Instagram reimagined : a study on imagined communities and instagram

• Main Author: Teo, Aloysius
• Other Authors: Sam Han
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races; DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Media studies; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66157
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since its birth in 2010, Instagram has grown into a global phenomenon. From tagging and following, to liking and commenting, Instagram is changing the way individuals interact with one another. By extending Benedict Anderson’s (1983) conceptualisation of ‘Imagined Communities’, this paper attempts t...